Saturday, May 9, 2009

Ignorance is bliss!!!


“Knowledge is end to all fears”------really???!!

Ever seen a child smiling?? He smiles as if there is no pain, evil or treachery around him. As he grows up and gains experience acquaints him with worldly malpractices, laws, regulations etc. his reasons to smile shrink dramatically. He discovers that he have to compete with a mass and prove himself every time he wants to achieve something.

There is a story of a king who started the search for the happiest man in his kingdom. A poor shepherd was awarded that honor. why?? why was a person with bare minimum possession so happy? A possible reason behind it could be the absence of responsibilities. Lack of responsibilities breeds blatant freedom. Freedom is the most indispensable reason for joy. If u strive for power, status and possession, they all come wrapped with immense and myriad responsibilities to bind u. Innumerous duties have to be fulfilled in order to maintain them. Man runs after these things for achieving satisfaction and happiness and ends up losing a major part of it.

So, how could we experience the purest form of happiness, utter joy, and sheer pleasure? One of the most common ways is to live in complete negligence. But today, where your even one wrong step can cost you your future this doesn’t seems a good option. Otherwise one day you’ll wake up to fin your life in ramshackle.

Second is to become a passive part of system and do not interfere wid the way it works. Always wear a mask which shields u from others. Be corrupt, be criminal, be every thing that system demands from u. Become “Hypocrite” in real sense. This way you’ll end up losing yourself and nobody will ever remember your deeds.

The most ultimate one is to baptize in the pool of knowledge. To detach yourself from everything. Reduce your expectation to absolute zero. Work without emotions, fears and worries of ramifications. To drop the difference between comfort & pain, smile & tears, gain & loss. To consider your self part of circus where God plays slapstick comedy with you. To consider yourself worst man on earth who deserves punishment every moment. Try challenging fate and destiny. Make your self strong enough to face world barehanded, to the point where luck and other people’s verdict doesn’t matter anymore. Point out the shortcomings of system and try to swim against the flow. This way is the most difficult of the lot but most appropriate, effective and right.

If u follow this nothing would be left to brood upon. And absence of sadness and confusion leads to sheer pleasure…..

As Naveen wrote on the walls of our room

“Do not take life too seriously,

You are not going to come out of it alive!!!”


PS: Did I forget to mention alcohol......oops!!!


5 comments:

  1. That was heavy philosophy surya...but who else do i expect it from.:) nice thoughts...just need a bit of editing though(as i see it)...d kings para could b used as d opening...n "This way is the most difficult of the lot but most appropriate, effective and satisfying".
    applause 2 d title!!

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  2. gr8 work dude ..... keep writing .... !!

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  3. I think there's one more addition i would like to make in ur suggested last way to be happy...to keep writing and spill over everything thts in ur mind ..this way one challenge's the system,points to shortcomings,rejects long held notions and practices, replaces sword with a pen(in our case keyboard)and offers a fresh perspective to readers .....be happy keep writing..waiting for ur another take on something...

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  4. well....the vocab is too difficult for me to understand... ;-) but then, the words are aptly used and ofcourse the content is quite philosophical....but i guess, u didn't mention the way we ppl used to be happy.. :-) probably not expecting anything frm any1, not even ourselves... :-D

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  5. gud work!!!....for me philosophy is hard to digest but I tried and succeed in understanding wht u hav written ...and at most part i agree with u... !!!

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